When Grabiner recently reached 10,000 posts, I looked through the list of members to see who else was a member of the 10K club, or about to join. It turns out that LadyGeek is within a few posts (9992 as I write this).

LadyGeek is of course also the site administrator, has a really cool handle, avatar, and signature (IMHO), and is a role model for female engineers and IT people, as well as passive investors of both genders.

Also, she devotes lot of time to moderating the board. Hopefully post #10,000 won't come as a thread lock.

LadyGeek, appreciation for all that you do!

Brad

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As a member of the behind-the-scenes team, I can assure you that LadyGeek has become an indispensable member of the Bogleheads community. In addition to her work as a site Admin, she also is a major player in the wiki development.

Thanks for all you do, LG. Sure glad to have you aboard as a team member!

Post 10,000 . I want to thank Alex Frakt and Larry Auton (mingstar) for entrusting me with the privileges of a Site Administrator and Barry Barnitz for entrusting me as a wiki administrator.

I became a wiki editor as a way to return what I've learned back to the forum: "The best way to learn something is to try and teach it." Contributing to the wiki allows me to help others while learning more about investing.

Moderating is another way to help the forum. Although it's not exactly a glamorous task, it is necessary. To a moderator, being called "fair" is indeed a complement and I appreciate the feedback.

I was recently on a new forum that looks promising, but will badly need good moderators to keep its lively members on topic. Every time I saw a potential off-topic post, I thought, "They need a LadyGeek" (or any of the Bogleheads' great moderators).

Congratulations and thanks, LadyGeek!

Also congratulations to grabiner for his 10,000!

And thanks to Nisiprius for his clever "tnx' post.

Fallible

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Thanks for all you have done to keep the wiki and forum both full of valuable information (as a poster) and running smoothly (as a moderator). I share your philosophy about the wiki; it's a place to share what you have learned with everyone else, and learn more about it in order to explain it to others.

I recently had the pleasure to work with LadyGeek in adding my Roth calculator to the Wiki and she was terrific. Not only did she review the model, and do the heavy lifting on the Wiki entry, but she also came up with a great suggestion to make the model useable by the free program LibreOffice, possibly opening its use to another whole group of users without access to Excel.

Congratulations on your 10,000th and contribution to helping people make better investing decisions, and I'm sure we'll all enjoy and benefit from your next 10,000!

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Let me join the chorus in congratulating. It would be nice to have a tiny star next to your name
when you reach certain levels (IE 2500, 5000, 10,000 and so on).

Not for ego sakes. While I do value all posters (well most anyway), those that have contributed
the most tend to also be the ones I scrutinize the most carefully.

Would we get a gray star next to our name if we’d been here for 10 years? (BTW, LadyGeek would be eligible on Dec 20; it’ll take a number more months for me to get the gray star (I hope I don’t get anywhere near 5k posts, much less 10k.... otherwise I’m not really enjoying my retirement.

....and LG, about that “demerit” so many years ago, there really should be a system to grant “time off for good behavior” after a few years

Lady Geek performs the role for the forum what the Federal Reserve does for the economy, that is take away the punch bowl just as the party is getting warmed up! Doesn't let us party goers get too rowdy. Thanks for keeping the group on an even keel.